I'm pre loading it right now on Steam. But I'm working the next two days!!! I work 12 hour shifts at a hospital, so...like...basically I won't REALLY be able to dig into it until Saturday/Sunday. Then I work Monday/Tuesday...and then Wednesday is a local around here I'm gonna try to check out. I won't be ready at all haha

The NDA is up and people are posting stuff on Twitter. Cervantes...looks like he's gonna be an issue...but then again he always has been so I guess it's fine

It seems to be a heart-felt apology for 5s misteps; with two different story modes; one that focuses on your Create-a-Fighter on a globe spanning rpg adventure that more-or-less compares to the Chronicle mode from SC1 and 2. And also a character-driven story mode for each of the main roster, not unlike what was in Soul Blade on PS1.

Those are, collectively, my favorite modes in the entire series so I am enthused

Am I missing something, or can you not load your created character into story mode?

I heard that apparently your Libra of Whatever character can't be used outside of that mode? I don't know WHY though since that's dumb.

I only played for an hour but I figured out that Siegfried's B6 combos into his Stomp. It's not good at all, but it is hilarious, and I definitely did it to someone online and laughed. This game is AMAZING

Raphael I only messed around with for a bit, but I hate that his A is his old hilt strike...he has other A moves that work as a proper horizontal attack, but it just feels kinda weird. I mean, Raph having shitty As is his whole THING, so it makes sense, but it literally has no horizontal coverage at all with his basic A, so it's just...strange. Overall he seems to have a lot of interesting tools, but I feel like he's more complex than he's been since SC2 (in a good way)

I also appreciate that this game takes an anime game approach and makes all the characters super unique. Everyone has their own moves and stances, so they're already pretty unique, but even beyond that people have hidden unique properties. Seong Mina does more damage with the tip of her spear, Siegfried has Dark Legacy, Yoshimitsu has his Soul Steal moves, Nightmare has Night Terror Charge, Taki's purple sword does chip damage...everyone's got SOMETHING. It's really cool, this game is so sick, good LORD

Despite my love for the game itself, I actually wasn't a huge fan of 2B herself (A2 better) but SC6 also getting N:A music through this crossover? And an Emil head, to finally provide the Make-Your-Own-Emil simulator the world needs? Good. Very good.

considering cygames sponsoring evo's events recently, i feel like this game is pretty clearly going to be on the roster once it comes out. curious to see how it plays out and if they add anything i absolutely hate like the last couple 2.5d games. there's been a pretty strong overlap between gbf and arcsys players for a long time though, so this game seems like a slam dunk in that sense. the music on the site is pretty cool too

considering cygames sponsoring evo's events recently, i feel like this game is pretty clearly going to be on the roster once it comes out. curious to see how it plays out and if they add anything i absolutely hate like the last couple 2.5d games. there's been a pretty strong overlap between gbf and arcsys players for a long time though, so this game seems like a slam dunk in that sense. the music on the site is pretty cool too